Friendship Health and Rehab Center

Friendship Health and Rehab Center, Inc operated a 253 bed skilled nursing facility, with a 78.16% occupancy rate for the fiscal year. The facility had total census days for all residents of 72,174 and served residents with a variety of financial resources. The facility provided skilled and long term care, and had special units dedicated to orthopedic, rehabilitation, and cognitively impaired residents. The services include nursing, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, discharge planning, dietary, environmental, laundry, and a wide range of activities. The facility has also developed a specialty in wound care. We are a teaching facility with an education department that provides nurses aide training, leading to certification as a teaching facility. We have developed close rlationships with area schools that have nursing programs and provide them with a place for their students to complete the clinical requirements of their training.

The corporation has a therapy department that provides physical, occupational, and speech therapy services on an inpatient basis to the residents. The success of the unit encouraged the corporation to dedicate one floor of the Health and Rehab Center to orthopedic patients.